UW-Madison nursing school vaccination efforts get thousands in funding to boost support
February 9, 2021 10:03 AM Logan Rude
Evan Bush
Keri Nasenbeny, associate chief nursing officer at UW Medical Center – Northwest, administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Tyson Greer, 77, early Friday, Jan. 29, 2021 in Seattle. Hospitals rushed out COVID-19 vaccines to hundreds of people in the middle of the night after a freezer they were being stored in failed. (Evan Bush /The Seattle Times via AP)
MADISON, Wis. Vaccination efforts throughout Wisconsin will soon get an extra boost thanks to a grant that will partner the UW School of Medicine and Public Health with the UW-Madison School of Nursing and four other UW System to support vaccination efforts around the state.
Seattle hospitals rushed out COVID-19 vaccines in the middle of the night after a freezer they were being stored in failed, leaving more than 1,300 doses that needed to be
A failed freezer forced an overnight dash to give out more than 1,600 doses of the coronavirus vaccine Hannah Knowles A line stretches for several blocks outside UW Medicine–Northwest in Seattle on Jan. 29 after a freezer failure prompted an all-night covid-19 vaccination clinic. (Evan Bush /The Seattle Times/AP) The last shots were given at about 3:45 a.m., out on the street, with literally no time to spare. All night, staff and volunteers with Seattle’s Swedish Health Services had been rushing to administer hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine set to expire early in the morning after a freezer malfunction. Finally, they had only a few dozen shots left and about 15 minutes to get them into people’s arms.